Huntsville gazette., 1887-11-12

THE Methodist bishops were in session
on the 7th at st. Paul's Church, New
York, reviewing the work of the year.
All We're present except Bishop Warren,
who is in China, and Bishop Ninde, who
is i'll.
AT GAINESVILLE, o., on the 7th, Wm
Sparks, bartender, crushed Edward
O'Donnell's skull with base ball bat.
The quarrel was over a bill for liquor.
O'Donnell will die. Sparks is under ar
rest.
GENERAL JOSHUA T. OWEN died at his
residence at Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia,
on the 7th, at the age Of sixty-two years.
He rendered distinguished military
services on the Union side during the war.
NJ. VULKovITCH, Bulgarian agent at
Constantinople, has notified the Porte
that the Sofia g. Prot railway will be
opened in March, completing, link by
link, the line which is to connect the Turk
ish railway lines with the European sys-
Z TEN.
d. j. BARTON, New York Central Rail.
road freight agent at Suspension Bridge,
N. ", was arrested there on the 7th,
charged with being short in his accounts.
Barton claims that it is merely an error in
bookkeeping.
The capture was made at Orlenville,
Mimi, on the 7th, on information received
from Lincoln, Neb., of Myron Severance,
on the charge of train robbery and grand
larceny. Severance is said to have be-
longed to an organized band which made
Lincoln its headquarters two years ago.
AT one o'clock on the m orning of the
Sth. fire broke out in the seed store of FL.
l.. Babcock, at Evansville, Ind, spreading
rapidly to and destroying the wholesale
houses of Haas, Runge & Co., drugs; loss
$4,000: insured for 5000. S. Kohn &
Son, groceries, loss $4,000. r. Monnhei-
mer & Co., groceries, $4,000. Urso & Nor
rison, fruits, $4,000. c. H. Work, har
ness and saddlery, $50, coo. Mocky, Nisbet
q Co., dry goods warehouse, $4,000. VIM.
Aiken, building, $780, 900. Mocky, Nisbet 6;
Co., building, $4,000. Tennert & Mesker,
$4,000. John Green, dwelling, 81, 900.
John Zinzich, dwelling, s. 600. The fro
was still raging, and threatened the entire
Oid-Fellows' block with destruction.
The leading topic of conversation
among the Anarchist leaders in New
York, on the 7th, was the finding of the
bombs in the cell of the condemned An.
archist Lingg. All Of the leaders agreed
that it was job put up by the police.
Mrs. CLEVELAND and her mother, Mrs.
Folsom, were rendered a reception by Mr..
H. II. Huston at his country residence at
Overlook, Philadelphia, on the 9TH. The
affair, although rather informal in its
nature, was attended by many prominent
society people of the city.
THE motion for stay Of execution in the
| omnibus Doodle case was up for hearing G
in Chicago on the 7th, before Judge Jami-
son, and was overruled. The defendants
| were each sentenced to two years inn
prisonment The defense asked permits
| sion to file bill of exceptions and was
given twenty Gays to do so.
THE French Chamber of Deputies COM
mittee or she bill affecting foreigners has
| introduced more stringent clause, which
| will seriously affect British and Amer
| lean residents. The clause proposes that
all children born in France, or persons
who have resided in the country for
twenty years, shall be held to be French
| subjects when they come of age.